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What is OpenWrt?
OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.
Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
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BattleMeshV5
The BattleMesh organizers have announced the 'Battle of the Mesh version 5', which will be held in Athens, Greece. BattleMesh is a technical tournament with an overwhelming social character. If you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking activist, or have an interest in mesh networks you might find this gathering highly interesting. This event is an opportunity to meet developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations, such as B.A.T.M.A.N, OLSR, Babel, BMX and L3 and L2.
The BattleMeshV5 will be held in Athens, Greece from the 26th of March until 1th of April. The testing / hacking / talks will take place in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). A large room that can accommodate 100 persons has been reserved for the BattleMesh participants. To this comes space for workshops, hacking sessions and a long list of social activities.
There is further organized a BattleMeshV5 Warmup which will be held during the weekend of 23rd - 25th of March in the mountain village of Sarantaporo. Sarantaporo is a small mountain village, situated at an altitude of 840m, opposite Olympus mountain, in the prefecture of Larisa, not far from Athens. Its permanent population is about 900 inhabitants and their main activities are agriculture, farming and surfing the web!
Further information can be found on the BattleMeshV5 website: battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV5
The OpenWrt developers
Backfire 10.03.1 final
21 December 2011
The OpenWrt Release Team would like to announce the final
Backfire Interim Release 1 (10.03.1).
Binaries can be downloaded at downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/
Highlights since Backfire 10.03.1 RC6:
* Added support for the TP-Link TL-MR3420
* Added support for the Netgear WNDR3800
* Added support for the D-Link DSL-2650U
* Another round of mac80211 improvements and stability fixes
* Changed wireless interface numbering schema to support restarts of single radios
* Fixed ethernet on newer Compex WP543 Boards
* Fixed race condition in link state handling of ag71xx ethernet driver
* Fixed cpmac ethernet regressions on various AR7 boards
* Fixed various busybox issues
* Fixed dropbear segmentation fault when using remote port forwardings
* Fixed the second ethernet port on Ubiquiti NanoStation M devices
* Prevent accidental bridging of station mode interfaces
* Indefinitely try to resolve NTP server addresses, improves reliability of time sync
Known Issues:
* Most open tickets at the time of the final builds
* Various 5GHz channels may be locked due to lacking DFS support and other regulatory requirements
More detailed information available at:
https://dev.openwrt.org/milestone/Backfire%2010.03.1
Detailed core changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/ba … 8695-29592
Detailed packages changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/pa … 8695-29592
Yours truly,
The OpenWrt developer team
Backfire 10.03.1-rc6
1 November 2011
The OpenWrt Release Team would like to announce a sixth release candidate (RC6) for Backfire Interim Release 1 (10.03.1). Testing of this release candidate will allow further refinement of 10.03.1
Binaries can be downloaded at downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1-rc6/
Highlights since Backfire 10.03.1 RC5:
* Further throughput and interoperability improvements in ath9k and mac80211
* Added support for the TL-WR740N
* Merged WZR-HP-G300NH and -G301NH images
* Fixed default network configuration for ASUS WL-330gE
* Fixed WRT160NL support for revisions with certain flash chips using a bigger block size
* DMA fixes in ag71xx ethernet driver
* Fix multicast traffic handling on RDC platform
* Fix ARM SDK building
* Improve ImageBuilder index generation, strip uneeded opkg work data
* Fix 6in4 endpoint update with changed HE.net api
* Fix mtu_fix rule generation, use mangle instead of filter table
* Switch from rdate to ntpd for more reliable time synchronization
* Various network configuration and base-files fixes
* Various fixes in uhttpd web server
* Support pptp configuration with symbolic server names
* Support disabling single wireless networks
* Rework MAC address generation for wireless VAPs
* Support binding dropbear to a specific network
* Introduce AC and Service name options for PPPoE, work around argument order issues
* Fix block-extroot on brcm-2.4
* Allow configuration of lifetime parameters for 6to4
* Allow negations, multiple values and other advanced configurations in firewall package
* Tune ICMPv6 default rules
* Add UCI configuration and LuCI module for wondershaper
* Deprecate iptables-utils
* Fix openl2tp build for distributions without current rpcgen
* Fix freeswitch for Backfire
Dropped platforms:
* Cobalt - not in release shape
* Octeon - not in release shape
Known Issues:
* Most open tickets at the time of the RC6 builds
* Various 5GHz channels may be locked due to lacking DFS support and other regulatory requirements
More detailed information available at:
https://dev.openwrt.org/milestone/Backfire%2010.03.1
Detailed core changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/ba … 7609-28694
Detailed packages changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/pa … 7609-28694
Yours truly,
The OpenWrt developer team
OpenWrt merchandise
OpenWrt has in collaboration with FreeWear.org launched the first series of official OpenWrt merchandise. It is a modest beginning, but more will come in due time. FreeWear.org handles production and distribution and each item sold includes a 3 Euro donation which goes directly to OpenWrt.
Further information is found on the www.freewear.org website.
SamKnows to measure European broadband with OpenWrt devices
The European Commission, in collaboration with broadband performance
testing specialist SamKnows, has launched a pan-European project to
map the broadband performance of all EU Member States. This follows
successful projects run with Ofcom (the UK telecoms regulator) and the
FCC (the US regulator). 10,000 volunteers are being sought from across
Europe to participate in this new study.
SamKnows provides each volunteer with a free 'whitebox', a hardware
device designed to measure the performance of the volunteer's Internet
connection when it is not being used. Hardware is provided through a
partnership with TP-Link and, of course, the devices utilise OpenWrt
as their operating system.
Sam Crawford from SamKnows stated: "OpenWrt coupled with TP-Link
hardware is a dream come true - it's reliable, cost effective and
incredibly easy to work with. We're big fans of the OpenWrt project
and have been using it in deployments since 2008. We contribute back
to the project too, by providing pre-release hardware samples, writing
wiki documents and assisting others on the forums."
If you would like to learn more about the project or register as a
volunteer please visit www.samknows.eu.
Backfire 10.03.1-rc5
15 July 2011
The OpenWrt Release Team would like to announce a fifth release candidate (RC5) for Backfire Interim Release 1 (10.03.1). Testing of this release candidate will allow further refinement of 10.03.1
Binaries can be downloaded at downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1-rc5/
Highlights since Backfire 10.03.1 RC4:
* Throughput and stability improvements in ath5k, ath9k and mac80211
* Various fixes in network configuration handling
* Switch to LuCI 0.10 branch
* Extroot partitions are no longer automatically mounted after a sysupgrade to prevent incompatibilities
* Various uhttpd, 6in4, 6to4 and base-files fixes
* Set ipk installed size metadata to compressed size, improves free space estimation
* Made pppd handle bad PADS frames more gracefully
* Fixed uci reorder command
* Improved configuration backup handling to only consider modified files
* Merged dualstack IPv4 & IPv6 firewall from trunk
* Integrated relayd support for client pseudobridges
* Fixed static route handling in dhcp client
* Support for the WNDR3700 v2
* Support USB 3g hot- & coldplug
* Add git branch support to feeds
* Add cmake support in buildroot
* Add autoreconfigure support to ensure proper libtool usage
New platforms:
* Lantiq Danube and Falcon platforms (lantiq_danube, lantiq_falcon) including ADSL and VoIP support.
Dropped platforms:
* The ifxmips port has been obsoleted by the Lantiq targets
Known Issues:
* Most open tickets at the time of the RC5 builds
* Currently 5 GHz channels do not work with mac80211 based drivers due
to DFS regulatory issues.
More detailed information available at:
https://dev.openwrt.org/milestone/Backfire%2010.03.1
Detailed core changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/ba … 4046-27608
Detailed packages changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/packages?revs=24046-27593
Yours truly,
The OpenWrt developer team
OpenWrt and Gsoc 2011
OpenWrt is this year applying to become a Gsoc participating organization. A preliminary list of project ideas and information can be found at:
https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/OpenWrtGsoc
The OpenWrt application has not yet been finalized, but everyone interested should begin formulating a project proposal. The mentioned project ideas are just to be seen as general areas of interest.
Sincerely
The OpenWrt Developers